Everyone in the Galactus Engine looked at the results of Natasha's investigation and expressed their opinions one after another.
As the king of secret agents, Nick certainly saw the clues. He said: "The possibility of Ross committing the crime is very small. Not to mention that I personally think it is impossible for him to commit murder. Tony's decision to go to Rhodes was completely impromptu.
"
"Furthermore, Ross and Rhodes' factions in the military are not completely opposite. There is no reason for him to install surveillance equipment in Rhodes' home. It is impossible to know that Rhodes complained to Tony about his arrest. Even if he knew,
It’s too late to prepare to take action.”
"This is very strange." Tony frowned and said, "I came to this world wearing a suit. The suit worn by Tony Stark already has the most basic life scanning function. Even if the opponent is invisible,
Even if the function is scanned, it will be invisible, so why can’t it be discovered?”
"Unless the other party didn't come at all." T'Challa, who was standing behind the bar, expressed his opinion. He said: "I think the other party may have poisoned him in advance."
"Again, Tony was clearly acting on the spur of the moment. Who could have predicted that he would suddenly go to find Rhodes and poison him in advance?" Nick refuted this view. He said: "Either Tony is unlucky, or the other party is going to do it."
To murder Rod at this time, and he just happened to happen."
"The possibility is too small." Tony shook his head and said, "The other party clearly wants to create conflicts between the Stark Group and the military. There is no such coincidence in the world."
"Have you ever considered that the other party also acted on impulse?" Schiller said: "He changed his behavior based on Tony's behavior?"
"But again, if he is monitoring Stark in this universe, he will definitely be discovered."
"That's not necessarily true," Schiller said thoughtfully.
Although he knows what the normal plot of this universe should be, it is obvious that the current situation is very abnormal. The murderer's actions against Thor and Tony have a certain overlap in time. This did not happen originally. This is not Natasha.
The butterfly effect brought about can be explained.
Schiller silently analyzed in his mind, did the murderer want to use both methods to complete the two cases quickly, or was there more than one mastermind behind the scenes?
"Let's straighten it out from the beginning." Nick held out a finger and said: "At noon, SHIELD agents received the task of investigating unidentified falling objects. At about 3:30 in the afternoon, Natasha and Coulson arrived in New Mexico.
state."
"At four-thirty in the afternoon, the crazy Thor broke in. At five o'clock in the afternoon, Thor returned to normal. At almost the same time, Tony came to Colonel Rhodes's house."
"At 11:30 p.m., Colonel Rhodes showed physical abnormalities, and at three o'clock in the morning, Rhodes died."
"Then the most noteworthy thing is that at five o'clock in the afternoon, Thor returned to normal and Tony came to Rhodes' house. Does this mean that the murderer's target has officially changed from Thor to Rhodes?"
"Did Loki find anything abnormal when he used magic to check Thor in this universe?" Schiller asked, looking at Thor.
Thor shook his head and said, "There is nothing unusual about him."
"What about the recurrence of old injuries?" Nick asked.
"Nonsense." Thor shook his head and said, "The capital of the Asgardians in the universe is their strong recovery ability. No matter how fierce the battle is, no matter how serious the injuries are, as long as there is still breath, they will not be left behind after they recover.
Any sequelae.”
"I know better than anyone else that I had no old injuries at all at that time. Although I was injured a little bit by causing a big fuss in Jotunheim, the superficial wounds were healed long before the Father of the Gods called me over.
.”
Nick couldn't help but sigh, showing some envy of the strong physique of the Asgardians, but at this time Schiller frowned and said, "Is it possible that when Thor cried out pain, his heart was really hurt?"
The wound was injured, and when Loki went over to check it, the wound had healed thanks to the powerful recovery ability of the Gods?"
"But if it was just such a minor injury, how could he be in so much pain?" Thor asked.
Schiller smiled and said: "Then you really underestimate the experience that humans have gained from tormenting their own kind for millions of years. We are good at making all living things feel pain."
Thor was speechless.
"Then can I understand it this way?" T'Challa said again: "The moment Tony stepped into Rhodes' house, the murderer shifted his attention from Thor to the two of them."
"The question is, was it Tony's act of entering Rhodes' home that diverted the murderer's attention, or was the murderer forced to move to Tony because he wanted to avoid Loki's detection?"
"Or both are possible." Schiller said thoughtfully: "Since he can bring down Thor, it means that the murderer is quite capable. Loki's power of detection was not covered up, and he is likely to feel the energy.
fluctuations.”
"He didn't want to expose himself, so he had to leave. Just when he was determining the escape route, he found Tony and Rhodes getting together. He simply tried another plan and decided that Rhodes was the target."
"Why me?" Stark immediately grasped the point, "Why did he think of me first when he was preparing his escape route?"
"It's very possible that I'm not thinking of you, but I can only find you." Schiller lightly knocked on the coffee table in front of him and said: "Even for our universe, teleportation is not a bad technology. In this universe
It must also have various restrictions.”
"Perhaps Tony in this universe is the anchor point for the murderer's teleportation. When he wants to use such technology to escape, he can only return to you."
"That means he has been in contact with me? When?" The moment Stark asked this question, he thought of the cup of coffee that Natasha spilled on himself in another universe.
"Coffee shop clerk? Boss?" Stark guessed.
He knew that Natasha couldn't spill the coffee for no reason, and he thought it might be a hint, but he really didn't find out anything suspicious about anyone else in the coffee shop, so he could only list his own suspects.
"Why couldn't it be the cup of coffee?" Schiller said.
In an instant, everyone looked at him.
In the secret safe house of S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury, Stark took a wine bottle and two glasses from Nick's hands, all of which were placed in transparent evidence bags.
"Tony, I don't want to put pressure on you, but the situation is not optimistic now. The FBI has already planned to cooperate with the military. They want you to go to jail."
"They can't do it." Stark walked back to the experimental table, put on gloves and began to prepare for analysis. He said, "Help me hold them off for ten hours, and I will give you an accurate result."
Nick's eyes stayed on the blue pattern on Stark's neck. Stark said without looking back: "I will not seek death before avenging Rhodes. Now that I leave my laboratory, I don't need anything."
People are an eyesore here."
Nick looked at him one last time, turned around and walked out of the laboratory. Stark was the only one left in the entire safe house.
He was constantly busy with various analysis equipment, testing the remaining liquid in wine bottles and cups, analyzing the material composition of the containers, and various speculations kept flashing through the genius's brain.
Three hours have passed, everything that can be checked has been checked, and no toxic ingredients have been found in anything.
But Stark did not show any decadence or confusion. He stood quietly in front of the experimental table and stared at a pile of experimental reports. It was obvious that his genius brain, which was proud of the entire universe, was working rapidly due to pressure.
Suddenly Stark paused and whispered: "It's not poison, it's not chemical poison! It's not chemistry at all, it's physics, it's physics..."
He turned around suddenly to get the phone, but in an instant, a hand held his wrist.
Stark looked up and saw in disbelief that the suit he had placed in the corner of the room was now standing upright in front of him, and stretched out a hand to grab his wrist.
A pair of eyes lit up in the visor.
"Bang!"
Stark was thrown out, and his forehead hit the wall in the corner. His head was suddenly bleeding. He groaned in pain and shouted: "Jarvis...Jarvis! Jarvis, are you there?"
?Why don't you answer me? No...impossible..."
At the same time, Natasha and Coulson, who were driving to the Bjort High Energy Physics Laboratory where Dr. Banner was working, suddenly heard a voice in the car.
"Hello, I am Jarvis, Tony Stark's artificial intelligence butler. About three minutes ago, the armor system numbered 1025 suddenly lost contact and detected that its location is..."
Hearing Jarvis suddenly report the address of Nick's safe house, Natasha braked suddenly, and Coulson next to her was restrained by his seat belt and let out a cry of pain.
The female agent immediately turned the car around, stepped on the accelerator, and drove towards the safe house at top speed. At the same time, she picked up her mobile phone and dialed the number, then said to the other side: "Nick, something happened to Tony! Get over here! Someone has hacked into his cell phone."
A, he may be in danger!"
Natasha arrived faster than Nick, but when she arrived at the door, she found that the safe house had activated emergency defense measures and she could not enter at all. Fortunately, Nick followed closely and took out the physical key to crack the door.
The security lock was locked and the agents filed in.
Natasha stretched out her hand toward Nick, and Nick handed Thor's hammer into her hand. Natasha rushed in with the hammer in her hand. As soon as she rushed to the door, she saw Iron Man's armor grabbing Tony Star.
K's neck lifted him up.
Stark struggled desperately, constantly pulling out the steel fingers of the armor with his hands, curling up and lowering his legs weakly.
Natasha held Mjolnir high.
"Crack!"
A bolt of lightning split both the mecha and Stark into charred black. Nick behind Natasha cursed, rushed in with the agents, and carried the half-dead Stark onto a stretcher.
Natasha had no intention of stopping at all. She walked out quickly with the hammer, and at the same time called Coulson and said: "I see what the murderer is playing, go to the High Energy Physics Laboratory!"
This time Coulson got into the driver's seat. Just as he was about to step on the accelerator, Natasha said coldly: "It's too late."
"The murderer has the ability to teleport." Natasha said, holding the hammer: "He is sneaking around us. When we protect one, he goes to kill the other. When we rush back to protect this one, he teleports again.
Let’s go and kill the original target.”
"Then what are we going to do?"
"We also teleport."
"But how can we..."
Under Coulson's shocked eyes, Natasha raised Mjolnir with both hands and hit the car with a bang.
The next second, the power of thunder carried the car into a swaying flight, turning into a point of light and disappearing into the New York skyline.